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For more than 100 years, The Chicago Community Trust has convened, supported, funded, and accelerated the work of community members and changemakers committed to strengthening the Chicago region. From building up our civic infrastructure to spearheading our response to the Great Recession, the Trust has brought our community together to face pressing challenges and seize our greatest opportunities. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.

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    COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $255,000

    Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI) seeks continued participation in the Changemakers Network to strengthen its capacity to engage low-income parents of color as civic leaders working within and across their communities to make changes they identify as priorities to improve the lives of children and families. With the goal of growing the work to at least 12 low-income communities in the metro area, COFI will continue to build its cadre of Parent Peer Trainers and Team-Builders/Organizers of Color who will provide leadership training and support for at least 150 emerging parent leaders. These leaders will, in turn, set and achieve change goals in their local communities and become active in citywide/statewide systems change campaigns on a range of racial equity issues.

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    Chasing23 Youth Empowerment Group

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $8,850

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    People Matter

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $10,000

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    Just for You Girlfriend Organization

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $5,000

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    LOVE TO SERVE INCORPORATED

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $7,500

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    ARISE CHICAGO

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $240,000

    Arise Chicago continues to organize to improve public policy for low-wage workers. We continue to organize to optimize the actions of key government agencies that are charged with protecting workers’ rights. This includes holding agencies accountable to use their maximum enforcement capacities, improving administrative actions, establishing inter-agency coordination, and more. Arise celebrates the momentum we’ve built over the last grant period, including progress from the Chicago Mayor’s Protecting Workers Working Group,the passage of the Chi Biz Strong ordinance, and a burgeoning partnership with the Cook County Commission on Human Rights. Continuing this trajectory, Arise Chicago seeks to ensure low-wage worker voices are driving the decision-making regarding policies that impact their lives. Action at each level of government will decrease COVID’s impact on low-wage immigrants and communities of color in the short term, and improve the agencies’ practices for building the collective power of workers in the long term.

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    Voices of West Englewood

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $2,500

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    DLD For Youth NFP

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $5,000